Warner Bros Picks Up Chris Weitz’s Book ‘The Young World’

Less than 15 months after signing his book deal, the filmmaker-turned-author has sold his debut novel. Warner Bros has picked up Twilight: New Moon helmer’s The Young World, which Little Brown will publish in 2014. Chris Weitz will helm the film and produce along with Andrew Miano. The young-adult novel is set in New York City following a catastrophe that kills everyone younger than 12 and older than 21 and leaves the survivors without heat, running water or the any of the amenities they’ve grown up with.

Will this be a new thing? Filmmakers becoming authors who then write studio marketing-friendly books that get adapted into films?

With the success of the Twilight saga and the upcoming 50 Shades mess, one wonders if you even need to BE a good writer anymore. Just publish a book with a coveted demographic as the main focus and you’re set to go!